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>Date:    Sat, 19 Oct 2002 12:53:05 -0700
>From:    mark wilson <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Fat and cancer
>
>--- Keith Thomas &lt;[log in to unmask]&gt; wrote:
>&gt; Just anecdotal, but nevertheless instructive:
>&gt; Before I went paleo in
>&gt; January this year I was also vegetarian and was
>&gt; taking Zantac almost
>&gt; nightly to prevent GERD.  The chyme would come up
>my
>&gt; oesophagus from a
>&gt; weak valve at the entry to my stomach while I was
>&gt; lying down asleep and
>&gt; irritatate a small lesion near my voice box.  The
>&gt; nightly irritation of
>&gt; this lesion over some years was a cancer risk.
>&gt; Within a week, I gave up
>&gt; using Zantac and have needed them only twice
>since
>&gt; then.
>
>
>Ditto for me although I was using Prevacid instead of
>Zantac.  I strongly feel that the rise in esophageal
>cancer is due to the SAD diet (emphasis on grains).
>It's been demonstrated that acid reflux &amp; GERD
>(hyper acid reflux) are responsible for most lesions
>of the esophageous.  Ever notice how often you see
>Rolaid, Tums, Maylox, Peptol Bismol, Zantc etc...
>commercials on TV.  Somethings going on.
Me three.  This effect (lack of heartburn and the accompanying reflux)
was one of the first things I noticed when I started eating paleo.
Fear of heartburn/reflux returning is one of the factors that KEEPS me
eating paleo!

Janice in GA